the worst happens when you least expect it

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

life is more than intelect

Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.